Example sentences for: centenary

How can you use “centenary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Cabot Tower atop the hill was built in 1897, fourth centenary of Cabot’s landing and diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.

  • Canada celebrated its centenary in 1967 with a World’s Fair, the Montreal Expo.

  • To mark the centenary of this remarkable book and help revive interest in its author, I hereby undertake to hand over a prize of ¥100 to the first person who challenges me with the words: “You are Michel Vercambre the eminent scholar who discovered the meaning of the word discubitory and I claim the prize of ¥100.”

  • The old man would have been content to allow the occasion of his centenary to pass unremarked, but his family had other ideas.

  • But I fault her for not quoting the best thing I've read on this subject, a passage I came upon in Joseph Alsop's centenary memoir of FDR.


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